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Why join GEMS? As many of you know, there is a strong gender gap in STEM-related fields. GEMS is a program that builds capacity in young women entering the fields of math, science, and engineering. We would like to help educate our girls on how to be successful in these fields through field trips, guest-speakers, research with the University of Illinois at Chicago, and service learning efforts. | ||
 Congratulations to our 2011-2012 GEMS Officers! President: Jacqueline Hardin Vice President: Nina Kucher Secretary: Grace Garrity December Meeting For a recap of December's meeting, check your email! Thanks to UIC-WISE for visiting! For more info on Kalpana's work in neurobiology, click here! Sign up for GEM-SET GEM-SET is a Mentoring for Success in Science, Engineering, and Technology program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Click on the link to sign up for the program: http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?id=109583  UIC GEM-SET Digest For additional events and opportunities, check out the UIC GEM-SET digest! http://tinyurl.com/WISE-Outreach-Jan2012-digest Fermilab 2012 TARGET Program The TARGET: Science and Engineering Program is a paid, non-residential summer internship opportunity open to all Illinois high school sophomores and juniors. Its design incorporates both classroom and work experiences five days per week for a six week period. Focused on the sciences, engineering and mathematics, TARGET work assignments may also include exposure to specializations that support the science done at the Lab including administration, computing, and communications. The application period begins on Jan 2. For more information, visit http://wdrs.fnal.gov/eeo/target.html Automotive Technology Interested in participating in a STEM lab on automotive technology? GEMS is going on a field trip on Feb 3! Contact Ms Lain, Ms Gonzales, or your officers if you'd like to attend! National STEM Video Game Challenge Entries are being sought for the National STEM Video Game Challenge. You have until March 12, 2012, to submit your ideas and games. The contest is open to students and game designers. Inspired by the Educate to Innovate Campaign, President Obama’s initiative to promote a renewed focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, the National STEM Video Game Challenge is a multi-year competition whose goal is to motivate interest in STEM learning in America’s youth. For more information, please visit: http://stemchallenge.org/aboutDefault.aspx. IIT Boeing Scholars Academy Attention all Sophomores and Juniors! The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Boeing Scholars Academy is a free, year-round educational enrichment program enabling access and exposure to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) academic and professional fields. For more information on how you can be part of the 2012-2013 program, visit their website! http://admission.iit.edu/boeingscholars. Deadline: January 31, 2012 Euclid Lab Euclid Lab (http://euclidlab.org) is recruiting middle school and high school students who love math for the spring 2012 session (beginning February 13, 2011) of Camp Euclid (http://euclidlab.org/programs/camp-euclid/program-description), an 8-weeks-long, few-hours-per-week, online mathematics research program. Financial aid is available. This would be an exceptional opportunity for any student to experience the excitement of trying to solve problems which no one has ever solved before. If you have any questions, please contact Juliette Benitez, Deputy Director at Euclid Lab, http://euclidlab.org/juliette-benitez University of Chicago Collegiate Scholars Program Due Date: Feb 15, 2012 Target Group: Current 9th Graders More info:http://collegiatescholars.uchicago.edu/page/prospective-scholars University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Summer Programs Young Scientist Training Program YSTP is for science oriented high school students of promise who wish to gain laboratory experience. YSTP is an excellent 10-week summer program designed for up to 10 high achieving students from groups, that have been shown to be underrepresented (African American or Black, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaskan Native or Native Hawaiian) in the health related sciences or who self describe from disadvantaged backgrounds. This program will help students to gain experience in biomedical research and career development. This year's program dates are June 19 through August 21, 2012 and the program will again be held on The University of Chicago campus. The application deadline is Monday, March 12, 2012. Students will commute to campus and work in the laboratories of UC faculty, where they will learn to do basic or clinical research in the one of the following areas:~ Diabetes, endocrinology, nutrition, obesity, digestive, liver, urologic, kidney or blood disorders or in the area of the ethical conduct of research.~ Participants will attend a weekly research colloquium where they will learn techniques of scientific analysis from UC faculty and medical school students. Program participants will receive a stipend of $1500, enjoy free tuition and an all expense paid trip to the national symposium at the end of the program. Chicago Academic Medicine Program CAMP is for outstanding high school seniors who will graduate in the spring of 2012 and who have been accepted into college. This program was developed to help college students from racial and ethnic groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health related sciences (African American or Black, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaskan Native or Native Hawaiian) or students who self-describe from disadvantaged backgrounds to build the knowledge base and academic skills necessary for success in a pre-medical program. This year's program dates are June 18 through July 27, 2012 and the program will again be held on The University of Chicago campus. The application deadline is Monday, March 5, 2012 CAMP is a non-residential, six week academic skills building program that is tuition free. Participants will receive a $1000 stipend and Chicago Transit Authority bus passes to defray in-town transportation expenses associated with the program. Application Process The on-line applications for YSTP and CAMP are available on the Pritzker website.~Applications are not considered complete until a certified transcript and letters of recommendation have been received by this office. The online applications for both programs are available at: http://pritzker.bsd.uchicago.edu/about/diversity/pipeline G.A.M.E.S. (Girls' Adventures in Math, Engineering, and Science) Camp Click here to view the flyer Deadline: April 13, 2012 |
 Kalpana Ramakrishnan (UIC - Neurobiology) http://tinyurl.com/Kalpana-bio Amie Zimmerman (Medical Illustrator) http://anatophilia.wordpress.com/ Shira Schneidman (Computer Science) shiraschniedman2007@u.northwestern.edu http://women.cs.cmu.edu/ada/Resources/Women/ http://www.womeninscience.co.uk/bios.php Sarah Paulson (Nurse Anesthesiologist) Rob Hefner (Wind Energy Specialist) http://northernpower.kiosk-view.com/ashmor  Engineering Your Future Learn more about what engineering is, what engineers do, and different career opportunities! (Click here for more info) Closing the Girl Gap in Science GIVE me an “S”! Give me a “T”! Give me an “E”! Give me an “M”! Yaaaaay STEM! O.K., that’s not exactly what was said last summer at a cheerleading camp on the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus. But that was the hoped-for spirit as dozens of kinesthetically gifted girls in ponytails savored their first taste of college life — three days at Southern Illinois perfecting their pyramids and pikes, sipping Starbucks in the student center, staying up late texting friends at home and across the room. (Click here to read more) Where the Women Are: Biology INCREASING the number of women in science and technology has been an important goal for universities and industries, and substantial progress has surely been made. More women than ever major in so-called STEM fields. Still, women earn only 17 to 18 percent of the bachelor’s degrees in engineering and computer science, and just over 40 percent in the physical sciences and math. Where are the women? Clustered in the life sciences. About 58 percent of all bachelor’s, master’s and doctorates in biology are awarded to women. But except for medical students, salary prospects are lower in biology, and research jobs, the most coveted of pursuits, hard to come by. (Click here to read more) Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard) LAST FALL, President Obama threw what was billed as the first White House Science Fair, a photo op in the gilt-mirrored State Dining Room. He tested a steering wheel designed by middle schoolers to detect distracted driving and peeked inside a robot that plays soccer. It was meant as an inspirational moment: children, science is fun; work harder. Politicians and educators have been wringing their hands for years over test scores showing American students falling behind their counterparts in Slovenia and Singapore. How will the United States stack up against global rivals in innovation? The president and industry groups have called on colleges to graduate 10,000 more engineers a year and 100,000 new teachers with majors in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math. All the Sputnik-like urgency has put classrooms from kindergarten through 12th grade — the pipeline, as they call it — under a microscope. And there are encouraging signs, with surveys showing the number of college freshmen interested in majoring in a STEM field on the rise. (Click here to read more) |
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